My taskbar (for volume, battery, connection) has suddenly gone from horizontal to vertical.

[Tanuki]

I must have hit a button that controls this inadvertently. I've tried rebooting to no avail, and I also looked up solutions online but have not found anything that worked. This is Windows 7. If anyone has an idea how I can make this go back to "normal", I would really appreciate it, because this is making the viewing space much smaller.

[Downwinder]

1. With Windows?

Grab it with the mouse and drag it to where you want it.

[Tanuki]

3. Thanks, but that was something I already tried. They won't stay put when I drag them.

[Downwinder]

7. Did you increase the height of the

taskbar to two or more lines?

[petronius]

2. If you right-click on the task bar and choose properties, there's an option

for "task bar location on screen." Set that back to "bottom"...

[Tanuki]

4. Thanks, but it has been set at Bottom all along. The icons are at the bottom, but they are vertical

and appear in a column at the lower right, under the viewing area, where they always were except they were previously horizontal. I do appreciate both of you trying to help me.

[petronius]

5. Maybe try this:

Start --> Control Panel --> Personalization --> Taskbar and Start menu

Under "Notification area" click 'customize', and then 'Restore default icon behavior.

[petronius]

6. On second thought, try this:

Right-click on the task bar, and make sure 'Lock the taskbar' is unchecked.

Then, click-hold on the top edge of the bar (where the pointer changes to an up-down arrow) and drag down. Recheck 'Lock the taskbar if desired...

[Make7]

8. Is your taskbar taller now?

If so, grab the top edge by mousing over it and left-clicking and holding the mouse button, then drag at as far down to the bottom of the screen as you can and let go of the mouse button.

Once you get the taskbar is how you want it, right-click an empty area of the taskbar and choose Lock the taskbar.

If what I described above is not the problem, you should probably do a screen capture and post it so we can see what you are seeing.

[Tanuki]

9. Make 7, you are my hero! This actually worked!

Thanks so much, and thanks as well to the others who took the time to try to help.
(And I'm embarrassed to admit that I don't know how to do a screen capture, so I'm glad it didn't get to that point)

[Make7]

10. Well, it looks like everyone else came to the same conclusion too.

As evidenced by post #6 and #7.

Glad you got the taskbar issue sorted out.

For easy screen captures, check out the Snipping Tool in Windows.

[Earth Bound Misfit]

11. For future reference...

...assuming you're using WinDOZE 7:

Rt click the taskbar, uncheck "Lock the taskbar" (if currently set to "locked&quot




Rt click taskbar again - select "Properties" - select Taskbar tab - choose "Taskbar location on screen" from the dropdown menu.



Click apply then OK - Rt click & "Lock" the tasbar. Done.